Q 01/05

Joe Biden was which number president of the United States?

A) 43rd

B) 44th

C) 45th

D) 46th

Answer · why

D) 46th

He served from 2021 to 2025, after two terms as the 47th vice president under Barack Obama.

Q 02/05

Biden represented which state in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009?

A) Pennsylvania

B) New Jersey

C) Delaware

D) Maryland

Answer · why

C) Delaware

He was the first president ever elected from the state.

Q 03/05

Biden was born in 1942 in which Pennsylvania city?

A) Pittsburgh

B) Scranton

C) Allentown

D) Wilkes-Barre

Answer · why

B) Scranton

The family lived with his mother's parents there before moving to Claymont when he was ten.

Q 04/05

To overcome a childhood stutter, Biden memorised lines from which two writers?

A) Shakespeare and Whitman

B) Lincoln and Frost

C) Kipling and Tennyson

D) Emerson and Yeats

Answer · why

D) Emerson and Yeats

He was a standout halfback at Archmere Academy and class president despite being, by his own account, a poor student.

Q 05/05

Biden's father eventually found success in what line of work?

A) Insurance

B) Coal mining

C) Furnace cleaning

D) Used-car sales

Answer · why

D) Used-car sales

Earlier business setbacks had sent the family from Garden City, Long Island, back to his wife's parents.